Are you looking for more enjoyable and meaningful work? If yes, then you’ll love our chat with Work Life Specialist, Mentor, and Design Your Best Work Life Internet radio show host, Robin C. Crawford.

With genuine enthusiasm, Robin will tell us why it is so important to focus on aligning your life’s work with the best of who you are, so you can then consciously create a work life you find truly fulfilling. She’ll also share her personal collection of tips, tools, insights, and learnings that support her amazing motto "Grab Life Where It Tickles!".

Providing alternative solutions to the typical approach to entering the wild and wacky world of work has been fascinating and so much fun for Robin ... in fact, she often says that part of living her best work life is helping others design theirs!

Robin has spent over 20 years observing work life structures in a variety of settings. She’s career advised 100s of students of all ages and completed numerous interviews on work life satisfaction and job structure. In addition to completing two academic degrees and a life coach certification, she spent 20 years in the corporate arena and holds a number of other certifications/licenses related to human and spiritual development.

WEEKLY ROUND TABLE with HiC Luttmers, John Carosella, and Mildred Lynn: What big lesson can people learn from your life? Get ready for a lively discussion!

My guest on this episode of Conversations in the Zone is Lynn Louise Wonders, a wellness and life-redesign coach for women over 40 and a licensed professional counselor. She helps women reclaim their lives with rich and detailed plans that attend to the needs of body, mind and spirit. Lynn provides education and services in aromatherapy, yoga, meditation, personal counseling, relaxation therapies and holistic wellness and weight release. She offers a wide array of holistic services, programs and products through her online marketplace and live in-person at her brick-n-mortar location Wonders Wellness Center located in Marietta, Georgia, USA.

For more about Lynn and the work she loves, visit www.wonderswellness.com.

For more about Robin and the work she loves, visit www.collaboratingforexcellence.com.

My guest for this episode of Conversations in the Zone is Hildi Moore. Hildi joined the i/m marketing healthcare team in 2010, an exclusive healthcare marketing and public relations agency. She has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing marketing, public relations and social media campaigns for healthcare associations, health plans, health IT companies and other healthcare related companies. Her experience includes strategic marketing and planning, project management, branding, creative strategies, webinar and conference strategies and client relationship management.

She excels at providing strategies that work within a client’s budget. Hildi is extremely passionate about marketing and PR for the healthcare industry. She truly enjoys working with clients to build strong relationships and memorable brands.

For this episode of Conversations in the Zone, I have the privilege to chat with Susan Moreno, a contemporary abstract artist based in Atlanta, GA. Susan attended The Art Institute of Chicago and The Atlanta College of Art where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art in 1987. Susan is an award-winning artist whose work has appeared in numerous juried shows including the Decatur Fine Arts Exhibition at The Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College. Her collectors include, The Bank of Atlanta, Decatur Arts Alliance, as well as, private collectors in Atlanta and Arizona. Susan grew up in Florida and was around water for much of her formative years. These early memories of water and movement are the foundation for her present work, as she pours paint on canvas and wood. The idea of unrestricted movement and liquidity are her primary concerns. She uses sand and charcoal to add texture and associations of earthiness to her images.

With over 25 years of experience Susan has entertained professionally in the Atlanta area, as well as out of state with caricatures. Over the years Susan has drawn countless caricatures for corporate events such as conventions, trade-shows, employee and customer appreciation, wedding receptions and much more.

Her client list includes Atlanta Magazine, PYA Monarch, Greystone Power, Georgia Power, AT & T, Delta, Coke, Georgia Power, just to name a few. For more information about Susan and the work she loves, visit www.susanmoreno.com, caricaturesbysusan.com or digitalcaricaturesatlanta.com.

In this episode of Conversations in the Zone, I welcome Brenda Strickland, a popular, dynamic and moving speaker. Author of the highly praised Life, Love and Lilies: Everyday Spirituality, she is committed to her students’ spiritual identities. She holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in music education. Professionally, she taught elementary music classes for 35 years in schools from Kansas to Hawaii to Georgia, helping children to find their musical voices as they celebrated the music of the world. She is a gifted pianist and singer. As a Life Coach, Brenda is dedicated to supporting her clients as they emerge into the deepest fulfillment of their highest aspirations. Her childhood spiritual home was Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City, where she learned to meditate in the Silent Unity tradition at the age of ten. Brenda and her husband, Rev. John A.V. Strickland, the senior minister of Atlanta Unity, live in Dunwoody, GA. They share their home with Duke, a long-haired Dachshund, and two cats, Makikilani and Bojangles.

For more about Brenda and the work she loves, visit www.brendastrickland.us.

For more about what Robin is up to and the work she loves, visit www.robinccrawford.com.

My guest for this episode of Conversations in the Zone is Alexandra Elizabeth Carpanzano. She has been blessed to find an opportunity that allows her to design her life and live her vision. Finding herself in a new state and out of her career of choice, with 8 bartending jobs and a college degree she would be paying off for the next 25 years, Alexandra chose to take a leap of faith and devote her “spare time” to building a Mary Kay business. She earned her first, free, career car during the Christmas season of 2011 while planning her wedding, moving across town and becoming a stepmom. Soon after, Alexandra moved into the top 2% of the company and debuted as a new Independent Sales Director breaking a record in her National Area of 6 weeks, and was one of the top 7 new Units nationwide! Having support from women and a company that encourages and teaches the priorities of God first, family second, and career third, she has put her hard work ethic into action and designed her life around those priorities and is currently building the life she envisions. Alexandra is currently in qualifications to earn her first PINK Cadillac, representing her love and dedication to empowering women to do the same, living debt free and having control over their choices. For more informatiion about Alexandra Elizabeth and the work she loves, visit www.marykay.com/acarpanzano.

The Feminine Soul Radio Show welcomes Robin C. Crawford. Robin, of "Design Your Best Work Life", serves as a work life coach/consultant who addresses the gaps in the typical approach to entering the world of work and helps people design their best work lives. She’s spent more than two decades observing work life structures in a variety of settings around the globe in over 50 job titles across profit and nonprofit sectors. She’s conducted extensive research, career advised hundreds of students of all ages, and completed hundreds of interviews on the topic of work life satisfaction and job structure; and she’s meticulously documented and tracked her own work life journey to uncover her true callings. In addition to her two decades in the corporate arena, which includes training and development in Human Resources, Robin holds two academic degrees in sociology, a life coach certification and a number of other certifications and licenses related to human and spiritual development. Robin also serves as a college professor, a life coach instructor and a Zumba Instructor. Part of living her best work life is helping others live theirs! For information about Robin and the work she loves visit www.robinccrawford.com or www.facebook.com/designyourbestworklife.

It is a privilege to chat with Virginia Nava Hieger on this episode of Conversations in the Zone. Virginia is the author of Your Unique Gift: Finding Life’s Unique Gift Proposition and Meaningful Freedom: Finding Freedom Through Wholeness, two new books aimed at empowering women on a journey of self-discovery, authenticity, wholeness and personal freedom. As a Transformative Power® coach, she believes each one of us has our own source of inner strength and that we simply need the tools to reconnect with it to let our light shine back out into the world.

Virginia became a transformational leader while working in the field of international business with DuPont, Merck and Sanofi, marketing and transforming brands, concepts and strategies into products and profitable ideas worldwide. Vibrant, fresh, and with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, she jumped into the world of freedom by starting her own Atlanta-based company, Transformative Power, LLC, in 2012. Her passion and calling is to help empower individuals to discover and share their unique gift proposition by focusing on unwrapping the essence of their gifts, and help companies to develop their unique gift from the inside out.

Tammy Washington, Creator of the Employee to Entrepreneur Mastermind, is a highly sought after motivational speaker and the author of Nailed It! a transformational guide to defeating procrastination, overcoming fear and achieving all that you desire.

Originally from Elloree, SC, Tammy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has trained for several fortune 500 corporations including Nintendo, State farm and Sam’s Club.

Tammy has been seen on HBO’s “Stepping Out”, The Mother Love Show, CNN’s IReport and has been featured in Angeles Magazine and Amore Creole Magazine as America’s Success Strategist.

Tammy is currently working on her second book “Stop Thinking like an Employee, Start Thinking like an Entrepreneur” and is here today to share “The Three Massive Mistakes Even Smart Women Make that keep them STUCK in their jobs, Undervalued and Unappreciated”.

My guest is Pamela Fowler, Founder of Piggybank2Prosperity, created in December 2013. Their mission is to expose young people to the opportunities of becoming an entrepreneur. She passionately believes "The creative mind that God has given us will form an idea that He will develop and bring into existence. We believe standing on God's promises produces prosperity not as the world knows it, but as God gives it. Dreams that have action can take you anywhere."

Their young clients learn that working hard can fulfill their dreams and they encourage young people and young adults to find ways to make money to help them go to college or pay college debt after their education. Whatever the financial need, they can think of ways to help others and be a blessing through a product or a service. They also discuss how money travels in a circular motion - you must give to receive. Giving also creates a ripple effect. Their goal is to set in motion waves of blessings from one person to the next.

Click here to learn more about Piggybank2Prosperity! Like them on Facebook.

As an Actress, Educator, and even a Copy Editor, Selena Anduze, has a penchant for learning all there is to enhance the journey of being human. With a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, a Master's degree in Natural Health, and a PhD in Naturopathic Medicine, Selena dedicates all she has learned to living the life of an “intellectual artist.”

A native US Virgin Islander, Selena, is no stranger to “island time,” which in a nutshell means relax, let go of conformity, and find your Zen or "Know Thyself." In fact, every facet of her life is in some way a reflection of the mind, body and spiritual wellness that vacationers often believe they can only achieve by visiting the simplicity of the beach. If you were to ask Selena what she does for a living, she'd smile and answer, "I’m a human."

As an actress, she takes great care in deconstructing the soul of a character, then reconstructing it in her image so that she can portray the human condition on stage or on screen. And in the classroom, Selena takes great joy in teaching her students about the structure and function of the human body, the vessel for one’s mind and spirit. The saying, "Know Thyself" resounds in her work. It is her belief that if one lives life like an Islander, taking time to reconnect with their mind, body and spirit, therein lies the key to one’s own personal paradise. It is with great pride that she uses her skills of performance to not only entertain, but also teach others about the glorious and despicable truths of being human.

For more information about Selena and the work she loves, visit www.selenaanduze.com.

On this episode of Conversations in the Zone, I am happy to welcome Keith Ivey. Although born in North Carolina, Keith calls Atlanta home. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in communications and from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity degree although he currently does not consider himself either a master OR divine.

He is a father to Michael and a grandfather to Ellie. His professional career has included the ministry, television production and post production, higher education administration and business theater production and, for two years, a Port & Shopping Lecturer on cruise ships. Now he is an independent association for LegalShield where his specialty is helping small business owners protect themselves and their businesses from the legal events of business life.

Keith also leads two networking groups:

Kennesaw Area Business Networking - http://www.meetup.com/Kennesaw-Area-Business-Networking